History of Texas, together with a biographical history of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson counties : containing a concise history of the state, with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens of the above named counties, and personal histories of many of the early settlers and leading families
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of action for which she was born,remembrance of the brighlit but desand her prayers and tears wheforced to be left with her strangefresh inl the memory of at leastparty, anld will last him throughWe presume that the princess win the tight by Colonel Moore cfork of the Colorado.GAME ANIMALS.George J. Durham, of Anstirof years ago enumerated the follochief game animals of Texas:Buffalo (formerly), elk, blackantelope,hare, rabbit, red and toturkey, prairie chicken, quail ("the whooping and the sand-hillAmerican and trumpeter swangoose, brant, snow goose (cominmodian), etc., blue-winged teal, tlwidgeon, green-winged teal, pduck, ring-necks, canvas-back, nipossibly some other species of dcock, plover, curlew, tatler, san(It would scarcely be appropienumerate the habits of these varitheir seasons of immigration andetc., as such matters come mowithin the domain of scientificmen's works. Iunters' storiesinteresting reading, but are notmatter of the history of a State;venture to relate one, as follows:FEARFUL ENCDUNTER WITH 2Returning home from one oftours under the burning sun csays Elder Z. N. Morrill, " I fcgreatly exhausted in consequence

HISTORY OP TEXAS. 241But the 100 miles from Providence Church, Navarro,olate child, county, north of Chambers creek. After an she was little rest I inmounted my horse, gunl in hand,r people, is with a view first to look after the farm, andone of the secondly, if possible, to get a deer or turkey,life. as fresh meat was called for. The farmlt wa.s;as captured in the Brazos bottom, and at this season of)n the Red the year the weeds were from four to six feethigh. Passing around the field, I watchedevery motion of the weeds, expecting to see adeer or turkey. Presently my attention wascalled to niy right, and about thirty stepsi, a number from my path my eyes rested upon the head,wing as the of an old she-bear, standing upon her hindfeet and looking at me. My horse was wildtailed deer, and I dared not shoot from the saddle. Leapoxsquirrels, ing to the ground as quickly as possible, Ipartri(lge"), leveled my rifle at the fearful object, wlichcranes, the then suddenly disappeared. Immediately tlhes, thle ayv weeds nearer by began to shake, and twon or Cana- cubs, not more than ten feet from me, ran upie shoveler, a hlackberry tree. IRestinlg among tlle limbs,intail, gray they turned their anxious eyes on me. Themallard and old bear was gone; and very deliberately Ilucks, wood- tied uip my horse, and witlL a smile on myderling, etc. face and none but the cubs and the God ofriate liere to thle universe in hearing, I said, I am good forous animals, you, certain. As I was about pulling theemigration, trigger the c ase of Davy Crockett flashed into,re properly my mind when he shot the cub and the oldand sports- bear came upon himt with his gun empty.s constitute With that distinguished hunter I had goneproperly the on a bear chase in Tennessee.but we will ," Well was it that I thought of hlim at thismoment, for I had not even a knife or a dogto help me in my extremity; and as, unlike& BEAR. the king of Israel, I did not feel able to takethe bear by the beard, I lowered my gun andmy monthly unsprung the trigger. Just then an angry)f August," snarl fell upon my ears a short distance away.)und myself The old bear was after me. The weedse of a ride of cracked and shook, and she stood upon her

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